If you use a lot of USB device, i believe you will use “Safely Remove Hardware” very frequently. But if you have a lot of tray icons, you probably need to take some time to find the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon. So, why not create a desktop shortcut to remove USB devices?
Step 1
Right click on your desktop and choose New -> Shortcut.
Step 2
Type “RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll” for the location. After that, change the name of the shortcut. I had rename it to “remove USB“.
Step 3
You had created your shortcut. Now you can double click it and remove and USB device as normal. This method works on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista.
Note: If you face any problems when removing your USB devices, you can try unlocker.
hey great tip out there. I always wanted to something like this .. removing usb in a normal way always used to irritate me… thanks for sharing this
Nice tip! Thanks for sharing. This is definitely a must on Win 2000 and XP though its not a big problem in Vista.
hanks so much for that tutorial.
Great Tip.
The remove USB icon kept getting smaller and smaller with higher screen resolutions and especially on laptop.
In addition to the many programs on taskbar that makes searching for it difficult.
The keyboard shortcut best is use Ctrl+F1 since these 2 keys are near each other and that only need to press 2 keys at the same time.
If use other combination that need 3 keys, it will be uneconomical in movements as one need to remove USB quite often.